Re: What is the reason for "section type conflict"?

["Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi...

Just trying to offer idea...
On 2/1/08, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was puzzled today, as several of machines all compiled the latest git
> pulled kernel with the following errors:
>
>    CHK     include/linux/version.h
>    CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>    CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>    CC [M]  drivers/net/sis190.o
>  drivers/net/sis190.c:329: error: sis190_pci_tbl causes a section type
> conflict
>  make[2]: *** [drivers/net/sis190.o] Error 1
>  make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
>  make: *** [drivers] Error 2

sounds like symbol name's conflict? maybe it happens during linking
stage..that is a spesific name is assigned to two ELF section. Just a
raw guess...you've been warned.

try to grep inside the C file...did you see something that defines a
section there?

regards,

Mulyadi

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